Aiming at identification of the components of competence-based vocational training, and its status in textbooks used in technological high schools, a content analysis of five textbooks on non-technological competencies, commonly used in all fields, was undertaken utilizing a check list considered as valid by curriculum experts. Furthermore, a perusal of related texts and documents revealed thre...

This study employs the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique, an efficiency model, to measure public schools in Thailand. Data came from 455 public upper secondary schools in Northern Thailand. The results reveal that the schools mostly operate inefficiently. To ascertain the efficiency measures, sensitivity analysis reveals the robustness of the resulting efficiency measures on efficiency....

For the purpose of this presentation, I will roughly divide mathematics into four large areas: fundamental mathematics, mathematics as the language of theoretical physics, mathematical modeling, and mathematics of modern information and communication technology (computers and networks). This subdivision reflects differences in values more than in content, but exactly for this reason it is relev...